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31·3 months agoWelcome to tankie.tube Mr President
33·3 months agoWe should be able to have privacy without labouring at it.
We shouldn’t be excluded from normal society by being private. e.g. I should be able to.hire a plumber without using Meta software.
8·3 months agoNo, u’r wrong 😜
Different format of discussion.
Social media: people trying to win binary points 👍👎
Wikipedia, scientific discussion, or a deliberative assembly: slow process towards writing a statement of a position, with lots of study along the way
People are trying to ‘win the argument’ for personal satisfaction. They’re not trying to self-correct or seek the truth.
I think I’ve only blocked a handful of people over a decade
I’m the opposite; I have hundreds of people blocked, mostly because they are bores.
6·3 months agoI say! Smashing machine old.chap!
May I suggest revolution?
Are there downsides that arent realy known?
That is not known.
1·3 months agoThe article is basically correct: everyone’s got a better life than their grandparents.
However, a few notes:
- He over-relies on Fintan O’Toole, who is a centrist tool. You can’t read one book about a country (any country) and repeat it as gospel, that’s poor journalism.
- Things appear better on paper than they are. Even using modified GNI gives a bloated number compared to how wealthy real/normal people are. By AIC [actual individual consumption] we are comparable to Estonia or Portugal.
- We are completely completely incapable of building infrastructure. Our political system can’t act decisively and go build a railroad or a Children’s Hospital.
And a positive he missed: we are arguably the best welfare state in the world, measured by taxing the rich and redistributing to the poor.
27·3 months agoIsolate Israel
3·3 months agoWait is the title a typo and should say 28 million?
564 258 deaths per year for fifty years?
Where does the paper say 38 million?
The whole entire point of free software is trustlessness.
Is the political disagreement around surveillance or something related?
321·3 months agoMsleading title: the study didn’t look at switching, just at correlations in the population.
That liberalism enables fascism.
Liberalism has as a core tenet rule-of-law and preserving the organs of bourgeois democracy.
surprising to see people on Lemmy who still.don’t know the word ‘liberal’
31·4 months agoDicing an onion
Just what I’m looking for!